I don't let myself get upset about the little nitpicky things anymore.

I've been in a Speedo half my life. So I am really comfortable with my body.

I've kind of got an out in cancer. It keeps things in perspective for me.

Being happy outside the pool means fast swimming in the pool.

I'm really looking forward to just concentrating on the swimming part now instead of what's going on with me outside the pool.

I think you have to be weird to swim breaststroke.

I think being an athlete prepares you for more things than people give us credit for.

I know there's life after the Olympics.

I attacked my cancer diagnosis the same way I attack training and competing, and that's pretty fearless.

At 28, you need recovery time after training.

After my cancer diagnosis, I really took my swimming to a new level.

-Bumblebee bat, how do you see at night?-I make a squeaky sound that bounces back from whatever it hits. I see by hearing.

Everything is research.

The spread of feminism is the most spectacular, extraordinary phenomenon in the last twenty years, and I believe we will accomplish our goals in a million different ways.

When God gives a command or a vision of truth, it is never a question of what He will do, but what we will do.

When you give to others to the degree that you sacrifice yourself, you make the other person a thief.

I'm rather hoping to find the Evil Queen. I think she'd be much more fun.

It may be that [Erwin Rommel] believed it to be possible to convince [Adolf] Hitler to go away and to end the war, but Hitler never dreamed of doing something like that.

It isn't the thing you do, dear, it's the thing you leave undone which gives you a bit of heartache at the setting at the setting of the sun.

I'm a guy here to play football. I'm not here for photos or newspapers or TV shows or trophies or awards. I'm not into all that.

... life is too short to do the whole.